BeyondTrust Reins in Those Pesky Vista UAC Alerts

BeyondTrust Privilege Manager 3.5 removes almost all the User Account Control prompts, one of Vista's most annoying "features".

Microsoft's Windows software forms the basis for an ecosystem of applications that run on top of it, but sometimes those programs are designed to correct the things customers don't like or want in the operating system.

Take Vista's controversial User Account Control, which is designed to reduce the exposure and attack surface of the operating system by requiring that all users run in standard mode.

But, when Vista users encounter a system task that requires administrator privileges, such as attempting to install an application, up pops a dialogue box telling them that they need administrator authorization.